You know how we all like to say we were in on something before it was really cool? Well that doesn't really apply to Minecraft since it's always been cool, but I was wondering, how long do you have to play before you are a veteran? I've played since beta 1.2 and can say things like: "remember when Glacier was still a cool seed?", and stuff like that. So give me your opinion, how long must one play before they gain veteran status.
PS: Don't just say "You have to have played from alpha, because eventually there will be almost no one who joined in alpha since it will be so old.
I'm a Alpha Veteran. I've been playing since Alpha 1.2.6 and I would say requiring to become a Veteran is not in Versions but in knowledge. If you know almost everything in Minecraft then I would call you a Veteran.
I'm a Alpha Veteran. I've been playing since Alpha 1.2.6 and I would say requiring to become a Veteran is not in Versions but in knowledge. If you know almost everything in Minecraft then I would call you a Veteran.
That sir, is a good philosophy. I wish there was some test to see if you qualified. Like a written quiz and a survival chalenge.
Played in alpha when it was getting close to becoming beta. And Glacier was a pretty cool thing. You can call yourself a veteran when you remember the horrors of non-deagrading leaves. Or something like that.
Played in alpha when it was getting close to becoming beta. And Glacier was a pretty cool thing. You can call yourself a veteran when you remember the horrors of non-deagrading leaves. Or something like that.
Played in alpha when it was getting close to becoming beta. And Glacier was a pretty cool thing. You can call yourself a veteran when you remember the horrors of non-deagrading leaves. Or something like that.
Do you guys ever get crazy rushes of nostalgia? What really gives me that nostalgia is watching seananners or x play alpha.
X was the first Minecrafter I ever saw. I watched his stuff before I bought the game. and in answer to your question, yes. Mostly when I'm starving to death and a zombie is pounding down my door.
Uhhh... I’ve played Minecraft since like 2012, but I just flew around and built stuff in Creative, because I didn’t learn to play Survival until about 2015, but have very nostalgic memories with the game, and know about 10,000 old Minecraft parodies and such. Me and some friends used to a few years ago together, and we played together and came over to each other’s houses almost every day to play Minecraft on the good ol’ Xbox 360 and have sleepovers, and ride our bikes. Do I count? Even though I didn’t play all the old severs and get to watch the old lets plays? Do I count? I don’t really think so.
I only started playing in 1.5.1, a bit over 7 years ago, but the game has changed and grown so much since then, much more than it did by the time this thread was made, that I could be considered to be a veteran, and the definition is just somebody who has had a long experience in a particular field, without any time specified (I've been playing for more than twice the age of of game when this thread was made). Put another way, there were around 20-25 million players when I started playing (based on total sales of 20 million by the end of 2012 and growth rates), now there are more than half a billion (sales alone have increased by 20+ million since that update, which includes the free Chinese edition) - so more than 96% of all players started playing after I did.
i wouldn't call myself a "veteran" but I do have a premium profile so that's kinda cool and rare and old and quirky I guess, idk I guess I'm not like other girls lol (this is a joke btw (the girl part not the premium))
I started in 1.4.5 but have used many mods (I even cover niche or mods of various types in spotlights these days), remember potions/enchantments but never use them, certain tricks I use like not using a diamond pick on obsidian when you can just use water & lava to cheat at a portal.
I don't do much with farms or end game Vanilla much but otherwise I've looked at the wiki for info on anything, even alpha/beta content, made maps based on that knowledge to test myself and others (Sound, Versions, Technical Aspects like Wither health in which difficulty or sword/axe stats, more that sort of thing).
I would say I know a lot but I won't say I'm an expert, I've just looked at different parts of the community out of curiosity or seeing the history as I like that sort of thing with development/changes and how the game feels in old versions like 1.2.5 and betas to versions with quality of life or mods I enjoy.
I'm in the same bucket as TMC. I started in 1.5.1 or 1.5.2 (not sure which, think .2) because my friends at the time were pushing me into the game (although they played with mods in servers and I played vanilla SP). The game was popular in 2012 but it only really soared when it became infamous, and now that it's become normal famous again that soaring is starting to climb again.
I definitely think the game felt very different in 1.5 compared to 1.6+, as the game began to feel more RPG ish and less survivalistic or artistic. It's horses and chests in fortresses that did it for me.
For me to consider someone a veteran, it has nothing to do with time played and all about competency. I don't care how long you've played, if you die frequently and/or stupidly and don't know most of the ways to be more efficient and constantly do really stupid things, you are not a veteran in my eyes.
For me to consider someone a veteran, it has nothing to do with time played and all about competency. I don't care how long you've played, if you die frequently and/or stupidly and don't know most of the ways to be more efficient and constantly do really stupid things, you are not a veteran in my eyes.
I can agree on not dying but efficiency is a playstyle thing. I play slow because I like it that way, makes the game feel longer and the world feel more alive.
I've been playing since 2015, (maybe late 2014), if you can call continuously asking my brother how to change what hot bar box I was on and flying around in 3rd person (front) on a crappy xbox 360 and having to put new batteries in my controller every 5 minutes 'playing'.
I can agree on not dying but efficiency is a playstyle thing. I play slow because I like it that way, makes the game feel longer and the world feel more alive.
I don't consider myself a veteran, that said I don't die all that often, my last and only death so far on my current survival world which I made a few weeks ago to encourage lizking10152011 to come onto the server, was missing the top of a jungle tree after using riptide with a trident while it was raining, and I had forgotten to put my golden boots with Feather falling 4 back on. But besides that I had zero problems in terms of environmental or hostile mob damage recently. Even in the Nether I've gone for many hours strip mining resources like quartz, netherrack and ancient debris (I did this without bed mining last night) and not died once in there on this world and my friend was impressed with my sharp aim when it came to shooting Ghasts down while we were exploring biomes searching for fortresses and bastions.
I have been playing the game just before 1.9 got released that is about 5 years now. I do not know if i could call mycelf a veteran but i consider mycelf to be very good in the game especially when it comes to survival mode since i play a lot i know what mobs drop what item, where those mobs spawn how to get ores easy and how to create most of the farms in the game(and no i am not saying going and watching a tutorial for a farm i mean i can create one to fit in my style). Based on my knoledge of the game so far i would consider mycelf a somewhat pro, i think veteran is someone above a pro player. Another thing though is that the game has changed a lot since it was released there are so many things now to do that make it hard for a player to master them all. For example the 2 biggest things in minecraft that i come across all the time on youtube is Building and Redstone both are hard to master and are so different from each other but can also work together. So if you are an insanely good builder you could call your self veteran in building. So in the end i think a veteran player is not the player that plays frm the very first day a game was released but a player that knows everything about the game.
PS: Don't just say "You have to have played from alpha, because eventually there will be almost no one who joined in alpha since it will be so old.
That sir, is a good philosophy. I wish there was some test to see if you qualified. Like a written quiz and a survival chalenge.
Oh god... not those things!!!
Yeah. Damn leaves...
Do you guys ever get crazy rushes of nostalgia? What really gives me that nostalgia is watching seananners or x play alpha.
X was the first Minecrafter I ever saw. I watched his stuff before I bought the game. and in answer to your question, yes. Mostly when I'm starving to death and a zombie is pounding down my door.
actual age? ehh... before shears?
GODDAMN IT
STUPID GENDERFLIP VIRUS
Uhhh... I’ve played Minecraft since like 2012, but I just flew around and built stuff in Creative, because I didn’t learn to play Survival until about 2015, but have very nostalgic memories with the game, and know about 10,000 old Minecraft parodies and such. Me and some friends used to a few years ago together, and we played together and came over to each other’s houses almost every day to play Minecraft on the good ol’ Xbox 360 and have sleepovers, and ride our bikes. Do I count? Even though I didn’t play all the old severs and get to watch the old lets plays? Do I count? I don’t really think so.
Haha I just joined the Minecraft forum lol
I started playing in 1.2.5, so I guess I'm a semi-veteran?
I only started playing in 1.5.1, a bit over 7 years ago, but the game has changed and grown so much since then, much more than it did by the time this thread was made, that I could be considered to be a veteran, and the definition is just somebody who has had a long experience in a particular field, without any time specified (I've been playing for more than twice the age of of game when this thread was made). Put another way, there were around 20-25 million players when I started playing (based on total sales of 20 million by the end of 2012 and growth rates), now there are more than half a billion (sales alone have increased by 20+ million since that update, which includes the free Chinese edition) - so more than 96% of all players started playing after I did.
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i wouldn't call myself a "veteran" but I do have a premium profile so that's kinda cool and rare and old and quirky I guess, idk I guess I'm not like other girls lol (this is a joke btw (the girl part not the premium))
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I started in 1.4.5 but have used many mods (I even cover niche or mods of various types in spotlights these days), remember potions/enchantments but never use them, certain tricks I use like not using a diamond pick on obsidian when you can just use water & lava to cheat at a portal.
I don't do much with farms or end game Vanilla much but otherwise I've looked at the wiki for info on anything, even alpha/beta content, made maps based on that knowledge to test myself and others (Sound, Versions, Technical Aspects like Wither health in which difficulty or sword/axe stats, more that sort of thing).
I would say I know a lot but I won't say I'm an expert, I've just looked at different parts of the community out of curiosity or seeing the history as I like that sort of thing with development/changes and how the game feels in old versions like 1.2.5 and betas to versions with quality of life or mods I enjoy.
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I'm in the same bucket as TMC. I started in 1.5.1 or 1.5.2 (not sure which, think .2) because my friends at the time were pushing me into the game (although they played with mods in servers and I played vanilla SP). The game was popular in 2012 but it only really soared when it became infamous, and now that it's become normal famous again that soaring is starting to climb again.
I definitely think the game felt very different in 1.5 compared to 1.6+, as the game began to feel more RPG ish and less survivalistic or artistic. It's horses and chests in fortresses that did it for me.
For me to consider someone a veteran, it has nothing to do with time played and all about competency. I don't care how long you've played, if you die frequently and/or stupidly and don't know most of the ways to be more efficient and constantly do really stupid things, you are not a veteran in my eyes.
I can agree on not dying but efficiency is a playstyle thing. I play slow because I like it that way, makes the game feel longer and the world feel more alive.
I've been playing since 2015, (maybe late 2014), if you can call continuously asking my brother how to change what hot bar box I was on and flying around in 3rd person (front) on a crappy xbox 360 and having to put new batteries in my controller every 5 minutes 'playing'.
I play well now though don't worry
I don't consider myself a veteran, that said I don't die all that often, my last and only death so far on my current survival world which I made a few weeks ago to encourage lizking10152011 to come onto the server, was missing the top of a jungle tree after using riptide with a trident while it was raining, and I had forgotten to put my golden boots with Feather falling 4 back on. But besides that I had zero problems in terms of environmental or hostile mob damage recently. Even in the Nether I've gone for many hours strip mining resources like quartz, netherrack and ancient debris (I did this without bed mining last night) and not died once in there on this world and my friend was impressed with my sharp aim when it came to shooting Ghasts down while we were exploring biomes searching for fortresses and bastions.
I have been playing the game just before 1.9 got released that is about 5 years now. I do not know if i could call mycelf a veteran but i consider mycelf to be very good in the game especially when it comes to survival mode since i play a lot i know what mobs drop what item, where those mobs spawn how to get ores easy and how to create most of the farms in the game(and no i am not saying going and watching a tutorial for a farm i mean i can create one to fit in my style). Based on my knoledge of the game so far i would consider mycelf a somewhat pro, i think veteran is someone above a pro player. Another thing though is that the game has changed a lot since it was released there are so many things now to do that make it hard for a player to master them all. For example the 2 biggest things in minecraft that i come across all the time on youtube is Building and Redstone both are hard to master and are so different from each other but can also work together. So if you are an insanely good builder you could call your self veteran in building. So in the end i think a veteran player is not the player that plays frm the very first day a game was released but a player that knows everything about the game.